Author’s note: Paul Craig Roberts held top security clearances. He has repeatedly warned that a US-Russian nuclear war would wipe out the human race, along with all other complex forms of life. As a scientist with expert knowledge, I wish to echo and explain his warning. The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons Steven Starr Nuclear war has no winner. Beginning in…

Weaponized Agriculture Tom Mysiewicz is a biotechnologist. In this article he shares with us his conclusions about the dangers of GMO crops. GMO CROPS… BOON TO HUMANITY OR RECKLESS SCIENCE? By Tom Mysiewicz Recently, an NGO (non-governmental organization) in Russia—the National Association for Genetic Safety–began working closely with the Russian Duma to enact a set of laws criminalizing the…

The Ukraine Election Paul Craig Roberts Things have to change in order to remain the same. The Maidan protests were for naught. One Ukrainian oligarch has been replaced by another. Poroshenko’s palace is as sumptuous as Yanukovich’s palace. Poroshenko even served as a minister in Yanukovich’s government, and he has been part of Ukrainian political corruption for years. The only…

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Guest Column by Glenn Greenwald Gerald Celente correctly named the US media “presstitutes.” They have proven beyond all doubt that they are whores for the government. The American media supports tyranny, and the whores are well paid for doing so. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38591.htm

Guest column by John W. Whitehead Support the Veterans — Washington Doesn’t The War On American Military Veterans It might be Memorial Day but Washington’s war against US veterans is heating up. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38602.htm

Russia’s Rise To Global Power Paul Craig Roberts This article first appeared in Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/05/22/russia-rise-to-global-power.html Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington’s role in overthrowing the elected democratic government of Ukraine. The other is to demonize Russia. The truth is known, but truth is not…

The Social Cost of GMOs Paul Craig Roberts Ecological economists such as Herman Daly write that the more full the world becomes, the higher are the social or external costs of production. Social or external costs are costs of production that are not captured in the price of the products. For example, dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico that…

Justice Is Dead In Amerika Paul Craig Roberts Cecily McMillan is an Occupy protester who was seized from behind by a goon thug cop–a goon thug with a long record of abuse of authority–by her boobs. One was badly bruised. Cecily McMillan’s elbow reflexively and instinctively came up, and Cecily was arrested for assaulting a goon thug. The goon thug…

More on the Belgium Treasury Purchase Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler In response to our account of the mysterious large rise in Belgium’s Treasury purchases http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/12/fed-great-deceiver-paul-craig-roberts/ , it was suggested that the transaction would show up on the Fed’s balance sheet. However, the Fed is under no obligation to show the transaction. The $141.2 billion in Treasuries purchased into…

Guest Column by Israel Shamir — The Ukraine in Turmoil Israel Shamir is an Israeli journalist reporting from Russia The Ukraine in Turmoil Israel Shamir It is not much fun to be in Kiev these days. The revolutionary excitement is over, and hopes for new faces, the end of corruption and economic improvement have withered. The Maidan street revolt and…

Guest Column — Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Dear Readers: The government’s fantasy story about 9/11 is now being enshrined in a 9/11 Memorial Museum. The only reason a superpower would want to establish a memorial to its incompetence, defeat, and humiliation by a handful of young men acting independently of any government or intelligence service would be to…

Militarist Bunkum Paul Craig Roberts Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part of the human and economic cost.…

Guest column by Professor Michel Chossudovsky — The Western Media Finds Nazis In Numbers On Procter and Gamble Soap Packages, But Not In The Ukraine Professor Chossudovsky shows that the Western media is unable to acknowledge the fact that Washington’s coup in Ukraine has given rise to a strong neo-nazi political movement which which Washington is cooperating. The neo-nazi paramilitary…

The Great Deceiver — The Federal Reserve Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler Is the Fed “tapering”? Did the Fed really cut its bond purchases during the three month period November 2013 through January 2014? Apparently not if foreign holders of Treasuries are unloading them. From November 2013 through January 2014 Belgium with a GDP of $480 billion purchased $141.2…

Call the Cops at Your Peril Paul Craig Roberts “Live free or die” is the motto of the state of New Hampshire. I hope the residents are prepared to die, because living free is not what they do. NH is merely a cog within the Amerikan Stasi State, but I am referring to what goes on within NH itself, not…

Gangster State America Where Is America’s Democracy? Paul Craig Roberts Anyone who looks carefully behind the veil of words cannot find democracy in America. For years I have been writing that the US government is no longer accountable to law or to the people (see, for example, my book, How America Was Lost). The Constitution has been set aside, and…

Guest Column by Finian Cunningham Putin Should Send Troops Into Ukraine Reposted from Debbie Menon’s My Catbird Seat Finian Cunningham’s title will strike propagandized Americans as strange, as according to Washington Russia has already sent troops into Ukraine. Whether one agrees with Cunningham’s advice to Vladimir Putin, Finian’s denunciation of the mendacity and inhumanity of Washington, its NATO puppet governments,…

Washington Intends Russia’s Demise Paul Craig Roberts Washington has no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having failed to seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, Washington sees new opportunities in the crisis. One is to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy the Russian-speaking areas of…

Guest Column by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, www.rutherford.org https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/putting_big_brother_in_the_drivers_seat_v2v_transmitters_black_boxes_d The United States pretends to be a home of freedom and democracy. In fact, the US is rapidly degenerating into a police state and a worse dystopia than George Orwell imagined in his book, 1984. John W. Whitehead describes below the prison that is being constructed for all of us.…

US Payments to Ukrainian Thugs Higher Than Previously Reported Washington and its German puppet state paid many people to protest in Kiev in order to serve as cover for the US coup that replaced an elected democratic government with Washington’s corrupt stooges. According to Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Zarjow, the payments continue, only now the money is paid to Maidan…

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